SPECIAL OFFERS
10% off
Enjoy a 10% discount on 'Crack on with me' sessions until the end of March 2025!
If you're stuck, overwhelmed and/or looking for some support, even if you’re not quite sure what that looks like, let's talk it through and see if I can help!
The Olive is a social enterprise, with a tiered fee structure reflecting the ‘purpose over profit’ aim to be accessible to as many organisations as possible. However, if you’re in need of support and can’t stretch to the rates below, please do
get in touch to see how I might be able to support you within your budget.
| Organisation turnover | Day rate |
|---|---|
| £0-300k | £275 |
| £301-750k | £350 |
| £751k-1.25m | £425 |
| £1.25m+ | £500 |
Strategy
While we’re operating in a state of wanting to do too much with too little, it’s vitally important that we prioritise activities that are aligned with our purpose.
I can support you to stay focused on your strategic direction, including through:
- facilitating away day sessions,
- developing or refreshing your Theory of Change,
- developing an impact and learning framework,
- conducting purpose and efficiency reviews,
- articulating your values,
- guiding language and communication reviews.
Executive support and Senior capacity
We often put ourselves last in the sector, but looking after our people is mightily important. I can:
- support leaders to develop whilst helping to protect their wellbeing through one-to-one coaching,
- support personal and professional staff development through one-to-one mentoring and coaching,
- add senior level capacity to your team for the work you need to push through.
Change management
With the landscape constantly changing, we have to adapt to survive.
Whether you need to assess your options, redesign services, consider restructuring, or support your team through change, you don’t have to do it alone.
We can work together to help you steer your organisation through the tough times, always with the utmost sensitivity and confidentiality.
Communications
This is how you engage people in your work and mission - whether intentionally or not, you are already ‘doing’ it!
I can help you to further demystify 'comms' and equip you with simple tools and considerations to nail the basics. This might include:
- creating strategic purpose-aligned comms strategies,
- developing branding,
- devising core messaging,
- identifying strategic language choices,
- website (re)development, and
- supporting your team to build skills and implement strategies.
Project design and planning
There’s lots to consider when designing your projects - balancing funders’ priorities with the needs and preferences of your beneficiaries, being ambitious but realistic in terms of the impact you can achieve given the resource available, following best practice when it comes to budgeting, risk assessments and monitoring…
I can support you to develop efficient and purpose-aligned plans, and equip staff with the skills and templates they need to manage activities effectively.
Email me to explore consultancy and senior level capacity support.
FACILITATION
| Turnover | 3hr session | 1-day session | 2 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| £0-300k | £685 | £1,100 | £1,925 |
| £301-750k | £875 | £1,400 | £2,450 |
| £751k-1.25m | £1,060 | £1,700 | £2,975 |
| £1.25m+ | £1,250 | £2,000 | £3,500 |
(Facilitation fees include the design, preparation, and delivery of sessions, as well as provision of follow-up notes and a post-session debrief call.)
Bringing together people, perspectives, and ideas to move things forward.
If you're looking for facilitation support, whether for one-off sessions or a series, online or in-person, I'd love to hear from you. We can work together to design and run bespoke sessions to suit your needs and preferences.
Popular requests include ‘away day’-style sessions with team building activities on topics such as:
- Strategy: ensuring you remain actively rooted in purpose in all you do
- Values: getting to the root of how you need to operate to align with your purpose
- Ideation: helping you to achieve clarity and develop ideas
- Creation: designing and developing projects, processes, values, or ways of working.
Email me
to explore facilitation support.
'CRACK ON WITH ME' SESSIONS
| Organisation turnover | Session cost |
|---|---|
| £0-300k | £200 |
| £301-750k | £260 |
| £751k-1.25m | £315 |
| £1.25m+ | £375 |
Join me for a dedicated 3-hour session to work through That Thing you've been meaning to get done but haven't been able to create space for, or don't want to tackle alone.
Whether you want to:
- work through and find solutions to a problem,
- hash out a new idea,
- (re)develop key processes,
- work through a tool,
- make sense of and prioritise your to-do list
- or anything else!
reduce the overwhelm and let's work on it together!
Email me
to crack on!
ONE-TO-ONE SUPPORT
| Organisation turnover | 6 sessions (min.) |
|---|---|
| £0-300k | £825 |
| £301-750k | £1,050 |
| £751k-1.25m | £1,275 |
| £1.25m+ | £1,500 |
Executive coaching
Even with fantastic teams in place, leading a small charity can be lonely and exhausting. As a trusted external person, I can support you through the challenges that are hard to take anywhere else, and harder to deal with alone. If you need:
- an ally,
- a thought-untangler,
- a sounding board (or some catharsis!),
- a space to be vulnerable and not have all the answers,
- a critical friend, or
- a bold idea champion
then let’s arrange some one-to-one sessions and develop your leadership skills while protecting your wellbeing!
Mentoring
Whether your team members are new to the sector, new to the role, or there simply isn't the capacity or in-house expertise to develop them in their roles, I can provide mentoring to help nurture the personal and professional development of your team.
Email me to explore one-to-one support.
TRAINING
| Organisation turnover | 0.5-day bespoke session | ‘Off-the-shelf’ session |
|---|---|---|
| £0-300k | £825 | £140 |
| £301-750k | £1,050 | £175 |
| £751k-1.25m | £1,275 | £215 |
| £1.25m+ | £1,500 | £250 |
How to talk about what you do
Objectives:
- To understand why clear, consistent messaging is important for small charities
- To understand the basis of key approaches to consider when writing messaging and how to break them down in practice
- To understand how language choices can impact brand perception and how to ensure messaging aligns with organisational purpose.
Understanding brand and branding
Objectives:
- To understand what brand and branding are
- To understand why brand and branding are important (even for charities!)
- To understand your charity’s brand and key considerations for your branding.
How to plan your charity's comms
Objectives:
- To understand the purpose of our communications, and ensure this is always central to any comms plan
- To build understanding of stakeholder groups and what to consider when mapping audiences
- To build awareness of what to consider when shaping your message
- To consider different ways of sharing your message, and tools to help you with planning.
Email me to explore training support.
FREE ADVICE SESSIONS
If you have a question or topic you're looking for a steer on, or you'd like some support but you're not quite sure where to start or what to ask for, let's have a chat!
I offer free, bookable sessions periodically throughout the year (roughly quarterly), which will be linked here when available. Or, if you're ready to chat in the meantime, please do email me: yasmin@the-olive.co.uk.
how The Olive Training and Consultancy can support you.
